The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.