The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.