Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!