It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you..

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are..

What you get free costs too much..

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations..

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies..

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God..

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to b….

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it..

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat..

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones..

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose..

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them..

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life..

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down..

Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe" chera d'e" tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me b….

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden..

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil..

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting their….

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself..

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.