Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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

Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.