The will to be oneself is heroism.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones..

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt..

I am I plus my circumstances..

The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And ….

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do..

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another..

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be..

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority..

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself..

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals..

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are..

To wonder is to begin to understand..

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values..

Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty….

Life is fired at us point blank..

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies..

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities..

We cannot put off living until we are ready..

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes..

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do..