Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.