It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big.

Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.

But when he’s cut, I bleed.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.

God did not die; he was transformed into money

Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.