Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Remember always that there not so very much difference between various people as we seem to imagine. Maps and atlases show us countries in different colors. Undoubtedly people do differ from one another, but they resemble each other also a great deal, and it is well to keep this in mind and not misled by colors on the map or by national boundaries.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.