Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Today is a king in disguise.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

The wise man throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Our distrust is very expensive.

On Henry David Thoreau: He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.

On stars: Every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. 

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.