Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

Life is the result of all your choices.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.