No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that’s the way the world is.
Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul.
I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them – “ordinary things” is a better expression. That is the way the world is.
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere.