I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

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

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

It's useful because it's beautiful.