What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

We're going forward, but nothing changes.

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.