The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.