If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.

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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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The soul is healed by being with children.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

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