when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.