“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

The color of truth is gray.

There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.

In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.

You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.