“If anything extraordinary seems to have happened, we can always say that we have been the victims of an illusion. If we hold a philosophy which excludes the supernatural, this is what we always shall say.”

“It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.”

“When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.”

“Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.”

“Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.”

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”

“What is happening in the world today? We have been living through an epoch in which wars, tyrannies and privations seem to have reached their peak...”

“We’re always a victim of our fears, if we can convey them and have people understand them, maybe we can help them protect themselves from their fears.”

“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”

“If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.”