I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.