... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

He who knows how to be content will be content with little.

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.