Quotes

The world will be saved by one or two people.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Let every emotion be capable of becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

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

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

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

At times it seems to me that I am living my life backwards, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.