The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.