I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.