Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.