I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.