You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice?

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!