It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.

Living a fake life is definitely a fulltime job of its own. Why place some unnecessary burdens on your shoulders, when you can actually live freely by being true to yourself?

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Human beings all mimic each other.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.