In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

My holy of holies is the human body.

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.