There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?