One is free, and at the mercy of everything.
The deep roots never doubt spring will come.
My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are.
The love of life begins with the love of one person.
The head follows the feet. We act first and find reasons later.
The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.
The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.
When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.
What we invent, we become
Talking is good. It's good to disturb the silence.
One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action.
One learns by doing, not by learning to do.
Skepticism precludes one from believing many things, but not from loving many things.
What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.
How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.
No one is more beautiful to me than a person who's easy to talk to.
The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.
When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.
Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves.
Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.