Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.