God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.

Simplicity is the language of leadership.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

Imagination is the propulsion of Life once we exhaust all reality.

Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.