During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.