The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

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

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

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.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.