“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

“Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

“Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?”

“What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.”