"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."