There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.