“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”

“A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”