A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.