For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.