We all have a weakness for beauty.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.