Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.