But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

While there is Ego, you will never be one with the universe... Or love your fellow man.

I like home. It’s warm and there are books.

Every day the men around me came to exercise their bodies

Civilization is held together by duct tape and spit, and I'm worried about the duct tape.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Every generation is equidistant from God.

If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.