And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

I'm one of my sensations.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

Happiness is a beautiful smile.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.

I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.

Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.