A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

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

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.