Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.