What is a hero without love for mankind.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.