If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

We didn't love freedom enough.

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.