Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!