I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.