You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

Those who have enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, forget in time that men have died to win them.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I am no bird: and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in solidarity of human brotherhood.

Education is the golden key that unlocks the potential of human growth.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.