Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

The soul is healed by being with children.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.