Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

Remarks are not literature.

One must dare to be happy.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.