Plus on évolue dans sa vie, plus on se débarrasse des croyances quinous limitent, et plus on a de choix. Et le choix, c'est la liberté.

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream with the intention with the being in the mood but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

We are born intuitive, which is why for most people, their intuition is actually the source of their greatest suffering.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.

We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.