Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.