There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.