Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.