Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.