Do not scorn little victories..

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions..

Understanding is the beginning of approving..

The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of i….

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes.

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament..

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better..

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguis….

Only fools don't contradict themselves.

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so..

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough..

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness..

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods..

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

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, uncons….

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

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it..

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not..

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn..

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure..

Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'..