A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

And all you can do is just read, " she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.

a person can also find solitude with others, though it is more difficult

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.

With love one can live even without happiness.

I am chilled by the realization of how similar circumstances in Europe in 2013 are to those of 100 years ago.

When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.

Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.