Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

When our center is strong, everything else is secondary.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

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

Naturally, the human being wants to forget pain.