If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.