There is no joy other than the joy of creating. There is no man who is truly alive other than one who is creating. All others are just shadows on the earth with nothing to do with being alive. The joy of living, whether it is love or action, is the joy of creating.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.