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

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.