"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."

"The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything."

"One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

"I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey."

"All I wanted was to be a university teacher."

"Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open."