To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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.