True humility is contentment.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.

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