Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.