Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

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.