The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.