Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.