We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

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

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

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

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.