It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.