For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.