There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.