Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.