He who never says "no" is no true man.

Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?