Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Our self- development is all about conquering and recreating ourselves

Don't try to fit into another person's mold, be bold and beautiful in your own shape and form.

That smile could move mountains. It could also break hearts.

Oh how quickly the world's glory passes away.

The motion picture is the people's Art.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.