Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Woman won't accept to be your second opinion, either you choose her or you lose her.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing.

Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.