People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.