There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?