Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

What do you have (talents, idea, contacts, a voice, strength)? God uses what you have to give you what you don't have.

That's the funny thing about running. The deceptive thing about it. It may seem mindless, but its really mental. If the minds strong, the body acts weak, even if its not.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

Every match I go into, I'm the huge favorite. I lose a set and it's, like, crazy.

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.