There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

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.

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.