"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."

"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

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

"'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

"I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society."

"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."

"It is a profound truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow — an essential principle for the reflective life."