It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

The tapestry of history that seems so full of tragedy when viewed from the front has countless comic scenes woven into its reverse side. In truth, tragedy and comedy are the twin masks of history - its mass appeal.

The will to be oneself is heroism