It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

To drive out the darkness, bring in the light.

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.