There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.