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.

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.