Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.