It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

If you want to be happy, be.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.