If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

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.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.