I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Sunlight is painting.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.