I was not at all worried about finding my doctor boring; I expected from him, thanks to an art of which the laws escaped me, that he pronounce concerning my health an indisputable oracle by consulting my entrails.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

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.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.