For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.