"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man."

"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!"

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

"Excessive productivity can bring the most gifted man almost to madness."

"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out."

"Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?"

"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

"Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also."

"The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife."