To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.