There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

The motive power of democracy is love

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

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.

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.