You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.