A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.