War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".