To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

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.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.