Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Until the day of his death no man can be sure of his courage.

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others - the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.