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.

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

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

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.