...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Hope is passion for what is possible.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.