The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.