"Thus no fortune, no external circumstance, can shut off the wise man from action. For the very thing which engages his attention prevents him from attending to other things. He is ready for either outcome: if it brings goods, he controls them; if evils, he conquers them."

"Any reform of the Security Council will require an amendment of the Charter of the United Nations under Art…"

"The State is that group of people who having got hold of the machinery of compulsion, legally or otherwise,…"

"Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth."

"The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practi…"

"That was the universe: you could beat it once, you could float a message in a bottle across half of eternit…"

"The weather suddenly turned bad, there were clouds... heavy rain. There was a doubt about whether we can go…"