Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.