Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.