The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

I am fat, lazy and kind.

That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different.People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

Ill-considered but well-intentioned actions do more good that actions that are well-considered but cruel.