To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.

Where I live, everything is very small.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.