The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.