It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

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.

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

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.