Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.