“Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.”

“Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.”

“I want you to always remember that you can become whatever you want to become, but that’s nowhere near as important as knowing that you can be exactly who you are.”

“Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly?”

“Even in hard times there's a possibility to have fun.”

“He loves power. A terrible love.”

“We expect one person to give us what once an entire village used to provide, and we live twice as long.”

“Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]”