How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.