Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.