If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.