Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

A hard life improves the vision.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.