One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.