To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?