A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

Strength comes from waiting.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.