Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

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

He who would travel happy must travel lite.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

The one thing that matters is the effort.