"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."

"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."