The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.