"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end swallows up the light. The human soul is a pupil which dilates in suffering and in the end swallows up God."

"There are no bad herbs or bad men; there are only bad cultivators."

"If I am to die, I will die laughing."

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

"There are no such things as small countries. The greatness of a people is no more determined by the number of its inhabitants than the greatness of a man is determined by his height."