Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.