Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

Don't forget to love yourself.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.