Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Life, for me, is living among my friends.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.