We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.