Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

One only really sees with the heart.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

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

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

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.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?