a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.

I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.