I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.