To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.