Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

it was only a hopeless fantasy,
it passed like an april day,
but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred
they have stolen my heart away.