Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.