The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.