"Three things white: skin, teeth and hands. Three black: eyes, brows and lids. Three red: lips, cheeks and nails. Thre…"

"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."

"In love, if inconstancy gives some pleasure, constancy alone gives happiness."

"To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones."

"Pain was in the order of things and restored the much-scoffed-at-discipline. And it was just such a discipline that I…"

"There was also anti-Semitism, a tricky problem. I did not feel then, and have never felt, any racial hatred. To me th…"

"Now I can smile at this fervor. But I do not repudiate it. It is, above all it was, a part of my truth."

"In a broader way, I discovered those those great, simple truths that had escaped me in the kind of magic circle I had…"

"I shall never be so embittered as to discourage the faith of those who are twenty years of age. I believe, though, I …"

"It is precisely when the house is on fire, as I said to myself, and there is a good excuse to flee, that one should d…"