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

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Live simply so others may simply live.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.