The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.