We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.