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.

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.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?