To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.

You must dare to make new voyages.

When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil

But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us.

Be deeply satisfied and ready for more.

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

Know the best and highest choices for health and more often choose those things.

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?