I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.

At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.