I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard vocation. That's why I decided to take, in every p...
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poeti...
Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Life is the sum of all your choices.
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless...
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.