That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new.
Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.
When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content.
One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
Happiness is love, nothing else.
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.
I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.