The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

The only great spirit of our time.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.