I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

The future is the shape of things to come.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Where there is love there is life.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

The way to know life is to love many things.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.