I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.