“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

“Tell me who loves, who admires you, and I will tell you who you are.”

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”

“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”

“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.”