Colors are light's suffering and joy

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.