Georges Duhamel

“To possess is to be possessed.”

“Politics is the art of preventing people from meddling in what concerns them.”

“Happiness is not a big stone that you drag, it is a mosaic that you build with all the little joys you encounter.”

“The essential thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. To be a man before being an artist!”

“Civilization is not about piling up things, it's about choosing.”

“The true traveler does not know where he is going.”

“A book is a tool of freedom.”

“Friendship is not being with your friends when they are right, it is being with them even when they are wrong.”

“One must dare in everything. It is only at this price that one succeeds.”

“The most difficult work is the one we dare not begin.”

“Every minute of melancholy deprives you of sixty seconds of happiness.”

“True education consists in bringing out the best in oneself.”

“The future is a door, the past is the key.”