As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

I saw the sunset forty-four times!

On ne sait jamais! One never knows!

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.