The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.