From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

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.

What I would give right now, to feel nothing.

...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...

If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

A heart sacrifice is not a formula that can be mastered. It is a decision that is intrinsically tied to the personal relationship between us and our God.

Even bullies need love.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.

Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.