How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

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

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind