» Effective action is always unjust.
» What you get free costs too much.
» It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
» Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
» An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
» Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
» Things are beautiful if you love them.
» To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.
» Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
» With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.