Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

Long only for what you have.

To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.