Romain Rolland

Everyone deep down within carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.