[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

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

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?