It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Silence is a great talent.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse, a hundred suspicions don’t make a proof, as the English proverb says, but that’s only from the rational point of view—you can’t help being partial, for after all a lawyer is only human.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

I love mankind, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.