It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

A human being is a garden of love. Only you have to know how much water is needed to grow them.

Being alone is easier than having a family. When you have a family, you are responsible to each other. It’s easier to navigate the world without that burden.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

Life is like this roller coaster you can’t wait to be tall enough and old enough to get on. But when you get on it you realize you’re afraid of roller coasters.

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.