“Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.”

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

Integrity has no need of rules.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

It’s that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

As far as I’ve been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don’t see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.

Do not bring flowers to my grave. Bring them to someone who is yet alive.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.