Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.