Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.

Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are