Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

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.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.