Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.