It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.