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.

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.

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.

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.

A dream is like a first draft. No one will ever see it but you.

Books are silent, but have the ability to scream.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

Running water is perceived as being filled with vitality.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Until you value yourself, you can't expect anyone else to do so.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.