It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.