To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

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.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

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

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.