We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.