The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.