“Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it’s all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you’ll head for hell!”

“When you walk in a beautiful road, you must know that you are walking on a miracle: The miracle of evolution!”

“If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!”

“If you have to live in the mud for a while, you must not resist being a frog for a while!”

“The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house!”

“There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!”

“Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!”