“I initiated Esperanto, but the creative rights to it also belong to the Esperanto community.”
“We call our language international, but actions speak louder than words.”
“I am profoundly convinced that every nationalism offers humanity only the greatest unhappiness.”
“It is a learning experience: I don't want to get into a rut.”
“At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing.”
“Nothing we did in those days has caused a change; because of what we did, things remained as they were.”
“I had troubles of my own, and even the most heartening philosophical vistas are no match for a toothache.”
“Times have changed since the Good Book was written.”
“Every now and then it's nice to stop and just look over what you've been writing and the way you've been writing it.”
“Power is like money. You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.”
“Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.”
“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”
“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”
“A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.”
“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
“We exist as long as somebody remembers us.”
“Time goes faster the closer you are to the end of it.”
“Waiting is the rust of the soul.”
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”