The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.