What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause?

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.