“One evening, after he’d read a piece about yet another savagery in Bosnia, I saw there were tears in his eyes. ‘Don’t it ever stop?’ he said. ‘I can mind Father telling that there’d be no more wars, not after his one. It shames me. It shames all of us. What’s the good in reading, if that’s all there is to read about?”
“Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.”
“There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.”
“Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.”
“Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?”