To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Nothing is final in history. It always moves on. Peace must be built again and again.

What God has written for your life. No human being can alter it.

What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

I like to sail. My son Caden and I are avid sailors.

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.

Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.