I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.