Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

You've got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.