I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

We wake sleeping, and sleep waking. I do not see so clearly in my sleep; but as to my being awake, I never found it clear enough and free from clouds.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.