The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.