He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

Humans don't see what they don't want to see. No one wants to be put down. That's why people do nothing even when they do know something is happening.

No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does not disappear, the shadow does not disappear.

Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will.

Giving up is what kills people.

The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.

The true wealth of a nation is not their natural resources but their achievements in education.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

A racing driver has to be a good driver.

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.