Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.

It's important that you think of your relationship with the world and the way you can express that world and that you not be stopped if it scandalizes or embarrasses; but you must not look for scandal or for the avant-garde as a thing in itself.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.

I cannot be angry at God, in whom I do not believe.