James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.