"The world is beautiful, and outside there is no salvation."

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

"I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature who insists on having one."

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."