“Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.”

“Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish.”

“True religion, indeed, is that which does not have to be avowed in order to provide the solace that at times...if only rarely...you cannot do without.”

“... a preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize murder only through wickedness.”

“Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness”

“L'amore sano è quello che abbraccia una donna sola e intera, compreso il suo carattere e la sua intelligenza.”

“Yoksa ben sigaraya kendi yeteneksizliğimin ayıbını yükleyebilmek için mi öylesine tutkundum? acaba sigara alışkanlığımdan vazgeçsem o umduğum güçlü, üstün adam olur muydum? belki beni tiryakiliğime zincirleyen de o kuşku olmuştur, çünkü insanın kendisini gizli kalmış bir büyük adam sanması rahat bir yaşam biçimidir.”