"People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit…"

"Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory."

"The more a man is loved, the less he is understood."

"I am a great admirer of the Russian people, and I believe they are a great people."

"There is no happiness in the world, there is only freedom and peace."