But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.