It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.