The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

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 am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.

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.

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

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.