The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.