"Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind."

"What do we free spirits want? We just want to think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings. Why should that be a problem for anyone else?"

"Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude."

"What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living."

"OYu begin with other people's stories and end up with your own."

"Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves."

"Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked."

"The technological revolution seems to have no higher purpose than to render humanity obsolete."

"When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones."

"Talking to people is the most educational thing I know."

"A hundred lifetimes wouldn't suffice to see all the beauty in one acre of land."

"This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's the only real one."

"The deep roots never doubt spring will come."

"Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up."

"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"

"When it comes to living and loving, we're all amateurs."

"Fire burns through thought."

"Humor is the salvation of those without hope."

"You can't know people, only their names."

"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."

"Maybe there is no justice, just different degrees of injustice."

"Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers."

"To remain sane in a mad world is the true victory."

"Whatever we may be or seem to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves."

"Novelists invent characters, poets invent themselves."

"Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive."

"When set out to create order, they create only misery."

"In my travels I found no answers, only wonders."

"The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom."

"We never solve the big questions, we outgrow them."

"The only way to live well is to feel intensely."

"A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination."

"Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live."

"If love is not the answer, what is the question?"

"We waste this life dreaming of another."

"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."

"Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it."

"Self-consciousness is hell."

"I have no heroes except flowers and children."

"I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it."

"The familiar is by far the most beautiful."

"The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped."

"All the great novels are about obsession and people who are obsessed."

"Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars."

"In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live."

"One learns by doing, not by learning to do."

"If your work is stressful, it's not your work."

"Who do I love? I love people who are easy to talk to."

"Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist."

"There is no condition so miserable that thinking can't make it worse."