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

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.

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

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.

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

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions.

Why help make big companies bigger when you can get the same thing from the little guy and actually help someone accomplish their dream?

Youth troubles over eternity age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.

My work from the last 25 years has been asking people to see differently.

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.