I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.