He who plants a tree plants a hope.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The market is a game of probabilities.