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

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

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

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

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

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