I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.