Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.
Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.
A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.
No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.
We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.
Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.
My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.
There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.
Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.