There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

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

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.