Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.