We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.