One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

Man alone can enslave man.