When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.