A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul.

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

When a man has a flower in his life he builds a house.

My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.