Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
I am I plus my circumstances.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
To live is to feel oneself lost.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
