All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.