People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.