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.

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.

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

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