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

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

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

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.