To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. – Henri Amiel
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. – Henri Amiel
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. – Henri Amiel
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. – Henri Amiel
Then your words of abuse today may turn into a universally valid principle of denigration, for words are magical formulae. They leave fingermarks behind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye becomes the footprints of history. One ought to watch one’s every word. – Franz Kafka, quoted by Gustav Janouch, Conversations with Kafka