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

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

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.