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

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

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

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.