I myself must also say I believe it is true that in the end humanitarianism will triumph

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

The script is simply a series of notes for the film.

Man is not interesting without some imperfection

Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart.