You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.