The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

To learn to read is to light a fire.