The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges....?

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.