What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

Suffering gives us no special rights.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.