Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.