We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.