Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Une philosophie doit etre portative.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he.

The body is a self-sufficient source of strength, happiness, healing power, love and resilience. The secret to tap into these sources, is to increase your spirituality.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

Sometimes the best things look the strangest.