I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.