“Life is always full of dangers and I don’t think one should avoid dangers.”

That’s always been my philosophy. – I’ve never thought of the consequences of a necessary action.

I’ve never understood women who, because of their children, pose as victims and don’t allow themselves any other activities.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Women sometimes go too far, it’s true. But it’s only when you go too far that others listen.

My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.

A nation’ s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

It’s the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I’m not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I’m for nationalization in cases where it’s necessary.

The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.

You soon realize that the peak you’ve climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb And the more you climb, the more you want to climb – even though you’re dead tired.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance and courage.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Just when you think you’ve achieved something, you realize you’ve achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same – toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man’s eyes.

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

Women are powerful and dangerous.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.