We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Le vrai but de l'art n'est pas de creer de beaux objets: c'est une veritable methode de reflexion, un moyen d'apprehender l'univers et d'y trouver sa place.