In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.