Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.

Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.