To understand everything is to hate nothing.

You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.

Everything is music for the born musician.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.