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

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

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

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

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