By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

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

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.