"Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed."

"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life."

"What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating."

"When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you."

"Things are beautiful if you love them."

"Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance."

"All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them."

"Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are."

"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."

"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."

"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death."

"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."

"With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil."

"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."

"Nothing is irreparable in politics."

"I like reality. It tastes like bread."

"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some."

"Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God."

"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life."

"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."

"We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down."

"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

"An ugly sight, a man who is afraid."

"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."

"God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies."

"Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path."

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

"Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?"

"A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself."

"Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it."

"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."

"Every man thinks god is on his side."