All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Solitude is independence.

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.

gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.

All higher humour begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.