It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

I am in the world to change the world.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

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.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

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.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.