I know that even the meanest person has still at his disposition high-sounding words wherewith to mask his real character.

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.

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

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

All truth is very ordinary.

A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."

Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of 'now,' we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us.

Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.