When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Are you to pay for all you have with all you are?

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.