“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that’s new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I attempt to be who I am and it’s fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I’m doing can be a little crazy.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.