Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
A creative, thoughtful, and accomplished people such as the Jewish people should be known by what they have done and not by what has been done to them.
Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
Did God really say that I couldn't tell my friends what so and so did yesterday? Does that really count as gossip? No, it's just venting, and venting is healthy right? Wrong! We are supposed to think about the things that are praiseworthy, not gossip worthy.