Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well, until I find something that changes it.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.

It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.