My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

The truth is lived, not taught.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.