"Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out."

"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what is right."

"To do nothing is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most repulsive."

"Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."

"The aim of art is to represent life in its forms and colors."