Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Author: Simone Weil

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Humility is attentive patience.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

There is no such thing in life as normal.