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.

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

I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

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

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.