I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.