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

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

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

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.