It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.