Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.