A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insa…

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stop…

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, the…

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much…

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of liv…