Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic which serves the individual and which therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such it is impossible to solve any of our problems, human, economic, ecological, social, or political.