The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how it could be worse is vital to appreciate anything, including our life, and so be happy and grateful

People cannot stand too much Reality.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.