Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.