It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

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

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.