The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

We're asleep until we love.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.