The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Men owe us what we imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

Humility is attentive patience.