It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.