Love is the cheapest of religions.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.