The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.

You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.