God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.

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!

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.