The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

Sleeping is the height of genius

To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?