“Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.”

“A fertile mind may still produce many weeds.”

“We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference.”

“Because life, no matter what it is like, must be lived, and because to live is not merely to survive; it is to laugh, to think, to write.”

“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”

“It is in this way that a war is disastrous. If it does not kill, it transmits to some an energy alien to their own resources; to others it permits what the law forbids and accustoms them to short cuts. It artificially glorifies ingenuity, pity, daring. A whole younger generation believes itself to be sublime and collapses when it has to draw on itself for patriotism and fate.”

“Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.”