Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.