We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand