I am in the world to change the world.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.