What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

Power is paradoxical.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Human life is beyond comprehension.