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.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

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

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

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