Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.

Houses of evil similarity appeared like rows of disciplined, humiliated orphans.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.