A loveless world is a dead world.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.