Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.