The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.