There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.