I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.