It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.