Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.