No two persons ever read the same book.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.

faith is when music stops but you continue dancing.

Make a beautiful mess and clean it up later.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

I have respect for leaders who defend the interests of their countries. Angela Merkel policies are positive for Germany, but they are unfortunately harmful for all other countries.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.