I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

We are all special cases.

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.