Understanding is the beginning of approving.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

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

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.