The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.

Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Talent is a long patience.