"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."

"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."

"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."

"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away."

"It is a profound truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."