Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.