I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.