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.

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.

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.

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

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

Do you ever get a panicky feeling that nobody cares if you live or die? (A husband will often care decisively, one way or another.)

So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.

Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.