I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.