The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it.

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

When each partner loves so completely that he has forgotten to ask himself whether or not he is loved in return; when he only knows that he loves and is moving to its music--then, and then only are two people able to dance perfectly in tune to the same rhythm.