Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.