'Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation.'

'Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.'

'To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet.'

'They are down to earth like their zoological forbears, before they got up on their hind-legs.'

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of thes…

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

Whatever the context and whatever the audience, he was clear, he was committed, he was compassionate, and, far more often than most, he was right - or if not, …