What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.