The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.