What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

I am I plus my circumstances.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it on the contrary we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

I am the philosophy before any philosopher.

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

I don't like the term "universal bank." The Chinese government legitimately wants to have a very strong economy. When they talk about SOE reform, they know that's part of it.

You're late," she said, tapping her watch. "No, you're just early.