He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.