Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.
Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made -- I and the Lord with whom I have made them -- unless I choose to reveal them. If I do not, then they are secret and sacred no matter what others may say or do. Anyone who would reveal these things has not understood them, and therefore that person has not given them away. You cannot reveal what you do not know!
There is nothing outside of the text. [Fr. , Il n'y a pas de hors-texte. ]