Quotes by writer

"Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius."

"Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an acorn in the morning, to expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of the oak."

"What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute."

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

"Where I live, everything is very small."

"You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets."

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

"I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent."

"To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction."

"I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds."