All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

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.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

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.

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.