A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.