The wise man is astonished by anything.

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.