The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.