I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my soul

The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves