The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.