Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.