Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

"I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Those who go forth to the battle never return without holes in their ranks, like gaping wounds. Pity of all pities that those who lead never learn, and the few wise men among those who follow never quite avail to teach. But faith given and allegiance pledged are stronger than fear ...