If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.