Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.