Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.

Learning To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts what should be above things as they are. It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master.

I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

The true enemy of man is generalization.

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.