For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

To know Paris is to know a great deal.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.