The most powerful soporific is sleep itself.

It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.