Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.