Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.

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.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

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

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.