An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Integrity needs no rules.

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful levers for keeping us upright and making us progress. On the other hand, if men are deprived of that feeling, they are changed into rabid dogs.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.