Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.