“They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”

Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?

I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one’s strengths and weaknesses are.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you’re missing the whole point of your humanity.