Distance is the soul of beauty.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

I can, therefore I am.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.