There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

How did they meet? By chance, like everybody ... Where did they come from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Do we know where we are going?

Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.

There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.