It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

Life, for me, is living among my friends.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.