Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.