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

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.

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.

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