Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.