To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.

We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

We all have a weakness for beauty.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.