if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

cleverness is a disease.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.