All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.