Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

Communication with another person -- wasn't it the realest thing in life?

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.