Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!