I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.