If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.