“You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.”

“You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters—all that matters, really—is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever-present consciousness. The rest—women, art, success—is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger”

“Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.”

“If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.”

“You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.”