I don't care that they stole my idea. . I care that they don't have any of their own
But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
It's been a long time since I've been me.
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
The food of hope is meditative action.
Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.