Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

I've stopped thinking all the time of what happened yesterday. And stopped asking what's going to happen tomorrow. What's happening today, this minute, is what I care about.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

Be always restless, unsatisfied, unconforming. Whenever a habit becomes convenient, smash it! The greatest sin of all is satisfaction.

Good Lord, how can the rich bear to die?