Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.