You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can invent something new. I think that is the best message of modernity.

By the duty to be happy, I thus refer to the ideology... that urges us to evaluate everything in terms of pleasure and displeasure...on the one hand, we have to make the most of our lives; on the other, we have to be sorry and punish ourselves if we don't succeed in doing so. This is a perversion of a very beautiful idea: that everyone has a right to control his own destiny and to improve his life.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.