"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."

"The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'."

"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through."

"The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."

"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."