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

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

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

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.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.