What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.