Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
