Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.