There are as many loves as there are hearts.

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

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

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.