Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.