If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.