To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.

What a force is laughter.

Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

The most rewarding path of investigation is: "the greatest external resistance in the presence of the least internal resistance."

But woe to the nation whose literature is cut off by the interposition of force.

Nobel Lecture (Literature is) the living memory of nations.

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.