I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.