Every thought is an afterthought.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.