No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.