It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.