Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

The less you know, the more you believe.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.