The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Americans have discovered fear.

The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly