It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.