A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

---

The soul is healed by being with children.

---

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.

---

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

---

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

---

I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

---

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

---

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

---

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

---

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.

---