Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

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

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

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

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.