“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

“My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.”

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

“Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.”