The world says: 'You have needs' -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

I was always conscious of that weak point of mine, and sometimes very much afraid of it. I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.

The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because they are ordinary. Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

A sick man's dreams are often extraordinarily distinct and vivid and extremely life-like.

I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amusement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.