The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.