If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.