I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Where I live, everything is very small.

I am a fox", the fox said.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.