Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!