The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.