Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

He who never says "no" is no true man.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.