Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.