If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

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

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.