[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

A father hurt by his son realizes how much he hurt his father!

Difficult situations create exploitable opportunities for those strong enough to persevere.

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.

A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.

An individual chooses and makes himself.

The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.