It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.