Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to be strong, what gives it power.