Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

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

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.