The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.