Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

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.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.