"If there is no God, everything is permitted."
"To love someone means to see him as God intended him."
"The soul is healed by being with children."
"Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything."
"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys."
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself."
"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."
"Beauty will save the world"
"To think too much is a disease."
"Only through suffering can we find ourselves."
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."
"Everything passes, only truth remains."
"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
"It is impossible for an intelligent man to become anything seriously."
"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."
"There are two sorts of mind: one that matters, and one that doesn't matter."
"Man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower."
"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man."