In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.