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

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

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

We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always 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.

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