“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.

I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

The person with big talk and big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. I believe that the law was made for man and not man for the law; that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

A man or a woman is known by the company they keep.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.

I want a man I can keep for myself. I wouldn’t ever share my man with anyone else.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

What great men do, common men follow.