Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.