The real leader has no need to lead—he is content to point the way. - Henry Miller

One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.

I study you so much to discover the possible flaws, the weak points, the danger zones. I don’t find them — not any. That means I am in love, blind, blind. To be blind forever.

So quietly flows the Seine that
one hardly notices its presence. It is always there, quiet and unobtrusive, like a great
artery running through the human body. In the wonderful peace that fell over me
itseemed as if I had climbed to the top of a high mountain; for a little while I would be
able to look around me, to take in the meaning of the landscape.
Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear
negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they
need to be surrounded with sufficient space – space even more than time.
The sun is setting. I feel this river flowing through meits past, its ancient soil, the
changing climate. The hills gently girdle it about: its course is fixed.