The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.