You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

There is no life without guilt anyway, at least in the Western world. I think in other civilizations it might be different but if the world is getting Westernized all over, guilt will enter through the technology and democracy and their actions. It will come side by side so there won't be anymore innocent societies in the future I think which in fact is not such a bad thing.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.