True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.