Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which the world is created by mortal hands to serve mortals for a limited time as home.