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

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

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

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