It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.

The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.