Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.