I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Reading is probably another way of being in a place.

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.