"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."

"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."

"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth."

"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."

"God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live."

"It is a timeless truth that he who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign."

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."

"A humble soul understands that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."