Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

The world is not something to look at, it is something to be in.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

What if we deny that human beings are exceptional? What if we stop speaking and listening only to ourselves?

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.