Sadness is a state of sin.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.