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.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

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.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.