The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.