I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.