But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.