I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

[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.

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?

Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.

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