Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.