Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.

If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.