Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.