Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

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