The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

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

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.