Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods