To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

You don't have to go away to know where your home is.

I am a great mother.

Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!

In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.