Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.
One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic
Language is a weapon, keep it honed!
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!