Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.