“When millions of people are starving, everyone is implicated.”

“Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.”

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

“There are very few large and many poor feelings in everyone's life.”

“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”

“You do not have to unburden your soul for everyone; it will be enough if you do that for those you love.”

“How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?”