It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air.

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.