When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

The obvious is always least understood.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

Stability is not immobility.

Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

sometimes I hate you," she said.

Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then.

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and the oppression of the people.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.