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

Fame separates you from life.

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

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.