The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

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.

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

It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.

An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

Life is like a guitar and the combination of chords are called moments. Playing them is the called living the moments.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

To lose is not always failure.