It is quiet here and restful and the air is delicious. There are gardens everywhere and police spies lie in the bushes. There are nightingales in every garden, but police spies only in mine, I think. They sit under my windows in the darkness of the night and try to get a glimpse of how I spread sedition in Russia.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.