A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

Education doesn't make you smarter.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.