Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

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