There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.