“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”

“In physics, energy has a very precise definition: it is what characterises something changing in the world surrounding us. [...] Counting energy is therefore nothing else than counting how much the world has changed.”

“A work of art is a work of art, and nothing else, personal considerations count for nothing.”

“The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.”

“I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends”

“What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?”

“History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.”

“We don't do body counts.”