Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.