If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.