Except that a human being is both the public and the private. We are both, private and public in the same person.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.

It always hurts when you lose a secret.

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.

I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.