For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it.

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

Why do you keep maintaining your ideas are right if you can't prove them?

We make our own hell out of the people around us.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.