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

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

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

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.