Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

In this vast country that he had so loved, he was alone.

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.