Szczęście jest pożyteczne dla ciała, ale to trudy rozwijają siłę umysłu.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

Medycyna nie zna tajemnicy wyleczenia, ale zapewniła sobie umiejętność przedłużania chorób.

A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

When life walls us in our intelligence cuts an opening, for, though there be no remedy for an unrequited love, on can win release from suffering, even if only by drawing from the lessons it has to teach. The intelligence does not recognize in life any closed situations without an outlet.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time keep one foot on the ground.

Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus. (The only true paradises are lost paradises.)

For every disease that doctors cure with medicine, they produce ten in healthy people by inoculating them with that virus which is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Błogosławiona niech będzie choroba! Chorzy są bliżsi swej duszy aniżeli zdrowi.

Prawdziwe badanie świata nie polega na poszukiwaniu nowych lądów, ale na patrzeniu w nowy sposób.