A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

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

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

A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.