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Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.