Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And,...

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.