“You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.”

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

To be able to make statements, you need to be confident about what you think. You need to have a sense of right and wrong.

Our confidence comes from our preparation.

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

The biggest thing is to have a mind-set and a belief you can win every tournament going in.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.

Be who you are and don’t allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.