What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.