International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.