I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.