"A man's greatest joy is to be able to overcome his fear."

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or no eyes."

"The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than the rationalization of a man who wants to rest for a moment."

"I am not a Jew, I am not a Christian, I am not a German, I am not a Czech. I am nothing."

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones which can be given neither a name nor any real description…"