We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. 

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. 

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. 

Knowledge is a body of information.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

When you meet intellectuals wanting in common sense, your frustration knows no bounds.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.