“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”

“Resolved, always to do that, which I shall wish I had done when I see others do it.”

“I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.”

“Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.”

“Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”

“I can tell Albanians in Kosovo that in Serbia, no one had trouble living for not being Serbian. Serbia has always been opened for all, and for those who had no other place to go—and for those who had no other place to go, for the poor and rich, for those who are happy and sad, and for those who are only passing through, and for those who wish to stay. Serbia only doesn’t want evil people, even if they be Serbian.”

“There is no "state" on the one hand, and people who live in it on the other. The "state" much rather belongs to what people do and understand. People do not live in the state. The state lives in the people.”

“I am who I am who I am who am I
Requesting some enlightenment
Could I have been anyone other than me?”

“There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.”

“Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.”