If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

I was too young to know how to love her.

Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.