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.
Andre GideBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre GideIt would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
Andre GideHumanity 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.
Andre Gide