André Gide

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

It isn’t true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

Life on the road is murder. It’s as though life begins and ends with your horn in your mouth.

You have to name it to claim it.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You’re crazy!

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.