There is no country but the heart.

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.