After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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.
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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.
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.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.