The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.