I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!

don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.