In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

... the unarmed power of naked truth.