If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.