You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

Who will dare say he has defined art?

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

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

If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.