1. “Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.”
2. “Effective action is always unjust.”
3. "Everybody's honest in one way or another. The trouble is, there's only one official way."
4. “Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.”
5. ”Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?”
6. “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.”
7. “Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.”
8. “Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
9. “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.”
10. “Saintliness is also a temptation.”
11. ”Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.”
12. “The object of art is to give life shape.”
13. “The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.”
14. “Things are beautiful if you love them.”
15. “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.”
16. ”Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.”
17. “What you get free costs too much.”
18. “With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.”
