It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past.

oh, who will deliver my mind from the heavy chains of logic? My sincerest emotion is distorted as soon as I express it.

Loving yourself isn't vanity. It’s sanity.

Art begins with resistance at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

I should like to enjoy this summer flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one for me.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless hehas the courage to lose sight of the shore.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.