It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?

But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.