There Can Be No Doubt

Hope Is A Feeling That Life And Work Have Meaning. You Either Have It Or You Don't, Regardless Of The State Of The World That Surrounds You.

The Salvation Of This Human World Lies Nowhere Else Than In The Human Heart, In The Human Power To Reflect, In Human Meekness And Human Responsibility.

There Can Be No Doubt That Distrust Of Words Is Less Harmful Than Unwarranted Trust In Them. Besides, To Distrust Words, And Indict Them For The Horrors That Might Slumber Unobtrusively Within Them - Isn’t This, After All, The True Vocation Of The Intellectual?

If [western] Relations With Russia Are To Be Friendly, They Must Be Open And Sincere, Otherwise There Can Be No Friendship At All. That Means One Should Be Able To Speak Openly About Everything At Meetings And Conferences. It Shouldn't Be That We Can't Discuss The Killing Of Journalists In Russia, Or The Suppression Of Human Rights, Or All The Warning Signs Surfacing In Russia Because Of Oil And Gas Or Other Economic Reasons. It's A Big Problem, But It's The Same In Western Relations With Arab States.

We Must Not Be Afraid Of Dreaming The Seemingly Impossible If We Want The Seemingly Impossible To Become A Reality.