I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Passion for books is the desire to read.

Your body will forget, but your mind often doesn't.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

In battle, topography is fate.

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.