But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

To change masters is not to be free.

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.