No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . One must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.