Andre Gide

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The most decisive actions in our life... are most often unconsidered actions.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.  Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself: "It all depends on me."

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.