A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Childhood

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Decisions

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Dreams

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Happiness

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Imagination

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Lies and Lying

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Memory

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Neurosis

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Regret

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Suffering

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.