Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

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.

Such is true joy’s absolute certainty, Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever.

Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.

I'd rather not do anything. Guys want you more when you don't. Young girls should know that.