Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

I naturally believe there will be a future, but I do not waste my time imagining its radiant beauty. ... It seems to me that we ought to think first about the present. Even if the present is desperately dark, I do not wish to leave it. Will tomorrow be free from darkness? We'll talk about that tomorrow.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.