French novelist (1901-1976)

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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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