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.

Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.

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.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.