Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.