...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.