I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.