Beauty would save the world.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human