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

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.