Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.

If youth knew; if age could.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.