A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.