The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.

War is a specific product of civilization.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.