Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

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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.

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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

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You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.

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This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.

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You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

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

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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.

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I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

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