Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.