As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

I saw the dead without really seeing them.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.

I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.