“The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.”
“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ”
“Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.”
“Those who perform acts of kindness without expectation of reward receive the greatest reward of all, immortality”
“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”
“The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.”