Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

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.

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

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

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