The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

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.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.