To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

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

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.