Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.