Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.