A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.