A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.

Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

I never said half the crap people said I did.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.