Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221

Easy to be a critic

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.

To create a work of art is to create the world.