A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.