Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Today's bread does not eliminate yesterday's hunger, much less that of tomorrow.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.