One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.