I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.