Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

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.

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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.

My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.