To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.