Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.