When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

To live is to be slowly born.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.