No one is ever holy without suffering.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.