A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.