Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

A true masterpiece does not tell everything.