There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.