All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.