The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

We know well only what we are deprived of.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.