A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.