Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

There is a certain state of health that does not allow us to understand everything; and perhaps illness shuts us off from certain truths; but health shuts us off just as effectively from others.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Dare to be yourself.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.