Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.