"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious."

"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."

"The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise."

"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."

"The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?"

"Savoir se libérer n'est rien; l'ardu, c'est savoir être libre."

"Toutes choses sont dites déjà; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer."