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

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

Close your eyes, all you see is yours.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.