No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.