“Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!”

“We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!”

“When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!”

“We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!”

“Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the opposites is to make us long for something! Thanks to the crowds, we long for the solitude; thanks to the solitude, we long for the crowds!”

“When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.”

“When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!”