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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

If we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.