Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.