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

No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.