I don't see any reason why I should look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.