The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.