You always become the thing you fight the most.

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women.

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

You are a slave of what you need in your soul.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.