People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the angle of the light: golden as apricots from far off, when we drove close to them they turned to freshly made butter; behind us they grew pink; from sand to rock, the materials of which the desert was made varied as much as its tints.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.