But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.