Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

At times I think and at times I am.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.