My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.