We must have a passion in life.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

Years do not always make age.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.