Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

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.)

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Fate is not in man but around him