The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

A smile will go the mile, while a frown will take you down.

If you can't be pretty, at least be nice.

A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview.

The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.