Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

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

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

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