Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use