“In all that I write, may her will, not mine, be done!”

— Romain Rolland, Journey Within (1947), Invitation to the Journey

About Romain Rolland

1866 – 1944

French novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature (1915).

“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.”

“Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought.”

“If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”