Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.

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

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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