"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

The only things you learn are the things you tame

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

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

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.

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

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.