The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.