Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.