Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still themost important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.

The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind

A child. . . opens and closes like a blossom.

In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.