Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
