It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.