What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

I am I plus my circumstances.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it on the contrary we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.