We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.
Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.