if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.