Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is.

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.

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.