Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.