It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

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.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.