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

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.

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.

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

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Man is, above all, he who creates.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.